- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:39:45 -0500
- To: www-html@w3.org
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > fantasai wrote: >> >> Daniel Glazman wrote: >> > copy and paste preserving the style. >> >> Such logic would only make sense if you try use HTML as the back >> end format of a full-featured word processor instead of a full- >> featured markup editor. > > Not at all. > Mozilla Composer and Outlook are not full-featured word processors but > web content editors and, believe me, they want to copy and paste styles > with the content. Email clients fit into the HTML-as-word-processor-format category because formatted characters--not hierarchically marked-up documents--are what their users are looking for. They use HTML instead of something like MS Word because in email it's the only alternative to plain text. (BTW, I wouldn't consider email to be "web" content.) Do you have any examples of when copying computed style is needed? I'm rather curious to see why a web page editor would want something like that. I suppose it would be useful for copying other people's content verbatim, but most sites don't do that. They at least try to make it *look* like their own. ~fantasai
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